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January 14, 2015, 12:05PM

The report by the official IRNA news agency came the same day as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif before talks with world powers resume over the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear program. It wasn't immediately clear if the two events were connected, though Zarif earlier said he hoped the case against reporter Jason Rezaian could be "resolved." Full story »

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, left, talks with former President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, during a ceremony where President Barack Obama presented them, and others, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

President Barack Obama laughs with former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee after awarding him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, Nov, 20, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Former President Bill Clinton, another medal recipient is at left. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, is seated during an event sponsored by The Washington Post to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate Monday, June 11, 2012 at the Watergate office building in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post, left, and former reporter Bob Woodward talk during the program "Remembering Watergate: A Conversation" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Monday, April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Ben Bradlee, right, former executive editor of The Washington Post, hugs William Cohen, former member of the Judiciary Committee, before an event sponsored by The Washington Post to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate Monday, June 11, 2012, at the Watergate office building in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee speaks during an event sponsored by The Washington Post to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate Monday, June 11, 2012 at the Watergate office building in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee leaves the Washington Post building, Wednesday, June 1, 2005, in Washngton. Only three people knew the identity of Deep Throat who vowed not to name him until after his death, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, and Bradlee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Former Managing Editor, Ben Bradlee, left, congratulates Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest on Monday April 7, 2008 in Washington. The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzers Monday including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital. The Post series on Walter Reed Army Medical Center was done by reporters Dana Priest and Anne...

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

Katharine Graham, left, publisher of The Washington Post, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, leave U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1971. The newspaper got the go-ahead to print Pentagon papers on Vietnam. Later however, the U.S. Court of Appeals extended for one more day a ban against publishing the secret documents. (AP Photo)

October 21, 2014, 5:09PM

In this Wednesday, May 8, 1991, file photo, Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Washington Post poses with her son publisher Donald Graham, left, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the post, in her office in New York City. Donald Graham, whose grandfather bought the paper at a 1933 bankruptcy sale, announced to staff Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, that the paper...

July 19, 2014, 8:30AM

Readers exploded Friday after we ran a story looking at accounts that a group affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers had purchased nearly $2 million worth of media ads on behalf of U.S. Senate hopeful Monica Wehby. Here's just a slice of what readers had to say. Full story »

August 06, 2013, 7:35AM

Monday's news of the sale to the 49-year-old pioneer of Internet commerce came as a shock to observers. It also sparked hope among the ranks of reporters beset by seemingly endless cutbacks. Full story »